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What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.
Janis Joplin
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Janis Joplin
Age: 27 †
Born: 1943
Born: January 19
Died: 1970
Died: October 4
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
Port Arthur
Texas
Janis Lyn Joplin
Pearl
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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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I think I think too much. That's why I drink!
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it's hard when you're a kid to be different. You're all full of things, and you don't know that it's about.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.
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If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.
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If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
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As good as you've been to this world is as good as it's gonna be right back to you.
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Don't go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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